Buckle.



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PATENTED APR. 16, 190 7.

BUGKLI-L APPLICATION FILED JUNE 14, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. SCHLEICHER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE EBER- HARD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORA- TION OF. OHIO.

BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. April 16, 1907.

Application filed June 14, 1906. Serial No. 321,630.

To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. SoHLEI- CHER, of Cleveland, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buckles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a buckle embodying my invention. Fig 2 is a section on the line II II of Fig. 1.

The object of my invention is to provide an eflic'ient buckle whose frame can be readily shaped or formed from a single piece of wire at a low cost.

In carrying out my invention I take a single piece of wire of the proper size and bend the endportions thereof to form,respectively, the tuck-loop 2 and the buckle-loop 3, the intermediate portion of the wire forming an oblique transverse connection 4 between the two loops, which forms a carrier for the tongue 5, and against the opposite sides of which the free end portions 6 of the wire are fitted and secured by tinning or soldering. By this construction the frame is strongly braced and may be readily shaped at a low cost.

What I claim is A buckle having its frame composed of a single piece of wire, whose end portions are bent to form tuck and tongue loops respectively, and whose intermediate portion forms a transverse oblique connection between said. loops, the free ends of the wire being fitted and secured to the opposite oblique sides of the said connection, and a tongue carried by said connection; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

WILLIAM A. SCHLEIOHER. Witnesses:

JOHN H. BAEHR, EMIL W. JAITE. 

